The Body Broken
December 05, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10999913 The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 1300-1520 by Charles F. Briggs This exciting new textbook offers…
Charles Briggs
After growing up in New York, Charlie Briggs majored in history at Grinnell College in Iowa, before going on to receive his M.Litt. from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993). After a decade and a half of teaching and administration at Georgia Southern University, where he was Professor of History, Briggs has returned to the more amenable climes and landscape of the Northeast. A specialist in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe in the thirteenth through early sixteenth centuries, he also teaches world history and early European history. Briggs’s most recent book is a general history of later medieval and early Renaissance Europe, entitled The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 1300-1520 (Routledge, 2011); he has also authored Giles of Rome’s “De regimine principum”: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275-c. 1525 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and edited (with David Fowler and Paul Remley) The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa’s Middle English Translation of the “De regimine principum” of Aegidius Romanus (Garland, 1997). He is currently co-editing, with Peter Eardley, A Companion to Giles of Rome (Brill, forthcoming 2012). He has published numerous book chapters, the most recent being “Knowledge and Royal Power in the Later Middle Ages: From Philosopher-Imam, to Clerkly King, to Renaissance Prince,” in Power in the Middle Ages: Forms, Uses, Limitations (University of the South, 2010) and “Moral Philosophy in England after Grosseteste: An ‘Underground’ History,” in The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2010). His articles have appeared in the journals Rhetorica, LATCH [Online], Journal of Medieval History, English Manuscript Studies, Medieval Perspectives, Manuscripta, and Scriptorium. An article originally published in 2000, “Literacy, Reading, and Writing in the Medieval West,” has recently been reprinted in The History of the Book in the West: 400AD-1455 (Ashgate, 2010). In addition to receiving research funding from the American Philosophical Society, he has been a Leslie Humanities Fellow at Dartmouth College, a Mellon Fellow at Saint Louis University, and Starr Foundation Visiting Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.
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